The Dillon tribune., 1887-01-28

the crash of the bursting shells and the dead
II nhis;la Of bullets s:il rang louder than any
wo-.s oti'ez could speak.
/ TIC worst frightened c-owde,! into the
! stream, il, e frenzy and struggled wildly With
the current tia. swept their feet of the SHINY
Limestone Of the bottom, with the logs ard
/ trees dasEins along like 50 many catapult
/ bolts. and with the horses and teams urged on
/ by racn more fear stricken still. On the steep
slo-c On the other side gli.nnered numbers ct
little fires where those who were lucky enough
to g! across were warming and drying them
selves.
.Hsaves.>:." said Harry with al anticipatory
s!1udicr. iii our me-, should come up. the first
canna: slot would make half these men crown
Themselves in trying to get away
Former needed hin, not. Tic inruntainceris
eyes we're fixed upon tall, imperious looking
man. Whose collar bore the silver stars Of q
colonial
He hes found Iii. man at last, said Harry,
noticing his companion, attitude, and picking
up his own gun in readiness for what might
come.
Former half-cocked his rifle, took from its
nipple the zap that had been there an hour
and hsng it away. He picked the powder out
Of the tube, replaced it with fresh from his
horn, selected another cap carefully, fitted it
on thenipple and let the hammer down with
the fantest snap to force it to its place.
His eyes had the look of the rattlesnakes
when it coils for a spring, and his breast
swelled out as it he was sumnoning all his
strength. He stepped forward to tree so
lightly THAT there came no rustic from tho
dead kaves he trod upon. Harry took his
place on the other side Of the tree and cooked
his m,sket.
So tiosc were they to hundred, Of Confcd-
crates with arms in their hands that it seemed
simply an invitation to death to cali their at.
tcntion.
Fort,cr turned and waved Harry back rs
he heard him approach. but Glen had aplaar-
emily exhausted all his capacity for fearing
in the march upon Wildcat, and he was NOW
calmly desperate.
Thccoloncl rode out from the tl,ronS to-
ward the level spot at the base of the ledge
upon which the two were concealed. The
horse he i.cstrolc was magnificent thorough
bred, whose fine action could not bc concealed.
even by his great fatigue.
"GOani find Mars" said the colonel to 81.
orderly. land tell Linn to build fire against
that r,ch there and make Us some coffee.
We viii not lie able to get across the ford lie.
iorc Midnight" The orderly rode OIL, and
the cobnel dis,nounted and walked forward
with the craniped gait of a man who had been
long III the saddle.
iilloudcr yclls arose from the ford \
powerful horse, ridden by an officer who was
trying to force his way across, had slipped ON
the rivers CLASSY bc.i stones in the midst of
a compact thron-, and carried many with
it down into tho deep water below the cross
ing.
Tho co!onel's lip curlcd with contempt as hc
his walk
A sharp little click sounded from Fortnnr,s
rifle. He had set the hair trigger.
lie stepped out clear of the tree. and gave
a peculiar whistle. The colonel started as he
heard the sound, looked up, saw who uttered
It, and instinctvely reached his hand back to
The holster for Il revolver.
Down would scarcely have been rulllcsl hv
l'ortncr's light touch upon the trigger.
Firo Earned from tn" rifles n,izzlc.